Residents and special guests, including former City Council members, local and state elected officials, Chamber of Commerce officials and Board members, Planning Commission members, and mayors from surrounding cities, will be able to tour the new police station, fire station, Chamber of Commerce office and City Hall.

Commemorative bricks for the Spartan Square Project are shown in Mountain Brook, AL, on May 31, 2012. Vic Wilson, former principal of Mountain Brook High School, and Hannon Davidson, the coordinator of Leadership Mountain Brook.(Beverly Taylor/The Birmingham News)

Along with hosting the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Mayor Oden will present a check to Mayor Jerry W. Brasseale of Pleasant Grove on behalf of the 2011 Leadership Mountain Brook. Their inaugural class project, “Spartans Helping Spartans,” helped raise money for the city of Pleasant Grove, known as one of the areas hardest hit by the April 2011 tornados. Throughout the 2011-12 schools year, students sold engraved bricks to be placed in Spartan Square, a section of the walkway outside the complex also to be dedicated on Sunday.

The engraved-brick walkway paves the way to the complex’s main entrance.

The main entrance to the complex, which will serve primarily as access to city council meetings, opens out into the foyer of a stained-wood staircase. At its base, explained City Manager Sam Gaston, the city will install a time capsule. The wood, crown molding and granite features continue throughout, leading the way to the new city council chamber.

Unlike their small temporary offices on Montclair Road that can only offer limited seating, the new council chamber will feature two separate rooms: one for pre-meetings and one—complete with an elevated seating area for councilmembers—for formal council meetings.

Double entrances to the mall service area, where city residents will be able to apply for building permits, pay traffic tickets and handle a variety of other business, were designed to promote ease of access, explained Gaston.

“This area was built to serve our residents,” he said.

The two-story building—complete with an outdoor deck next to the mayor’s office—also houses Fire Station 1. The space, Mountain Brook Fire Chief Robert “Zeke” Ezekiel went on to explain, will fit all the needs of the fire department—a luxury they hadn’t been privy to in the past. Now, along with an apparatus bay large enough to house an ambulance, a pumper, a ladder truck and the commander’s vehicle, Fire Station 1 features a training room, a full kitchen complete with a commercial stove, and 10 individual dorm rooms.

The space, said Ezekiel, was also designed to help promote a sense of community between the fire department and Mountain Brook residents. Large windows serve as doors at the apparatus bay, allowing children and curious onlookers a chance to peek at the shiny red fire engine.

A 9/11 memorial, flown in from the site of the World Trade Center in New York earlier this year, sits just outside the fire department headquarters to help promote a sense of unity.

In 2010, explained Ezekiel, The Mountain Brook Fire Department applied for and received a piece of the steel measuring seven feet long and weighing 1,305 pounds. Shea Scully, a local artist known for his work with iron, prepared the piece for display.

Separating the two buildings—city hall and the fire station from the police station—is what at first glance just appears to be a road. The road, however, is actually a bridge over an underground parking deck built to house 61 parking spaces for city employees.

From the underground deck, three separate entrances—to city hall, the fire station and the police station—help ensure city employees can easily enter their part of the building.

“Our area features more of a controlled-access entrance,” said Police Chief Ted Cook, about the police station during the tour.

Because the building will house an armory, evidence lockers and a jail, safety, is of course, their main concern.

During Sunday’s Open House, the Police Department will also hold a dedication ceremony of its own.

The Mountain Brook Police Department Law Enforcement Memorial, originally dedicated in August 1991, will be re-dedicated during the open house.

“This memorial honors law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty, specifically honoring Sergeant Freddie J. Harp, Officer George T. Herring, and Officer Theron N. Houlditch, the three Mountain Brook Police Officers who have been killed in the line of duty,” Chief Cook said in a news release.

For more information about the complex, including a photo gallery of the space, click here.